went out with pols in the high 50s. Anyone who calls them "status quo" is a divider..

#Tom Perez is NOT "status quo.. #TeamPerez here

Biden has a great endorsement for Tom Perez..

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden is backing Tom Perez to head the Democratic National Committee, calling the former Obama administration labor secretary the "best bet to help bring the party back."

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"Biden's support, his first political act since leaving office, is the highest-profile endorsement in the crowded — and still fluid — race to lead the Democratic Party, which has rekindled party divisions exposed in last year's presidential primary campaign.

While former President Barack Obama has praised his former labor secretary as "tireless, wicked smart," he's so far withheld a formal endorsement.

Biden cast Perez, a Dominican-American civil rights lawyer who grew up in the Rust Belt, as a tireless champion of working Americans, immigrants and the disabled.

"He knows how to explain why our party's core beliefs matter to the immigrant family in Arizona and the coal miner in West Virginia. That matters," Biden said in a statement. "I've watched him work. I think I know his heart. That's why I endorse him as the next chairman of the DNC."

Perez, who was quietly urged by the White House to jump into the race, faces his stiffest competition from Ellison.

Democratic strategists with knowledge of the chairman selection process say Perez has as much as a 66-member lead among the 447 members of the party who will vote on the next chairman at the party convention in late February. In total, 304 members have indicated who they're backing."

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6192565e58f44ee99750f9ee86b69848/biden-backs-perez-race-lead-democratic-party

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